This proposed criterion has been supported by extensive exploratory field studies among people of different age levels, walks of life, and cultures. Over the years its articulation alone has helped people to understand themselves better, to work and relate better, and to select and develop better leaders.  Derivative MODULAR h2 Practices have served to simplify effective management.  These "h2 Notes.from the back of an envelope" help naturally to structure lean organizations and to improve coordination in industry and government.  Across the range of technology, manufacturing, education, health delivery, and criminal justice,   many supervisors, managers and executives have used them to improve  their immediate groups' performance. h2 Notes have helped, most significantly, to select  leaders who are "ready for responsibility", and to secure integrity in the generation, flow, and use of information on successive operating and executive levels.  

Two generic modes of inquiry have enabled controlled statistical testing of different proposed criteria for emotional maturity.  Focusing on "effectiveness" as an operational aspect of maturity and mature leadership, the two inquiry modes have helped to organize experience from across history. culture and ideologies, and across shared intuition and direct observation. They invite ongoing basic research for clearly articulated criteria for emotional maturity that may prove valid and most useful across the human scene.

Within this framework for ongoing open inquiry, h2 DESIGN offers hypothesis two and h2 Notes as clear catalysts for human effectiveness and effective leadership – as operational tools for the core value of "honesty with consideration" in human affairs – as potential cross-cultural expectations for healthy lives and a more healthy world.

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